"There's no crying at Evening News. There might be some crying when a president is shot and assassinated right before your very eyes, like we saw with Walter Cronkite, though he didn't there was like a wiping of the eyes when he took off the glasses to report that JFK had been shot and killed, adding, But that's as far as he went. That's as far as most Evening News anchors would ever have gone traditionally."
"It makes me emotional, he answered, wiping tears from his eyes. Let me get a second here. To help people understand why I have such a reaction Florida is where I grew up It's where I would've spent all of my childhood, but we left because of my father. He got in some trouble with business. It's like we laugh about it now, but he was a drug dealer. The reason it's so emotional for me is because I feel like I was robbed of the full Miami experience. So when I come back, I'm always like Oh my God,"
Megyn Kelly criticized Tony Dokoupil for becoming tearful on air while discussing his connection to Miami and his father's past. Kelly insisted that there is no place for crying on the Evening News and compared acceptable on-air emotion to Walter Cronkite's restrained response to JFK's assassination. Dokoupil choked up explaining that his family left Miami because his father got in trouble with business and was a drug dealer, and that he felt robbed of the full Miami experience. Kelly mocked the prolonged sobbing and voice quivering while saying she does not begrudge private tears but questions on-air displays.
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